Regulatory Signs
Warning Signs
Guide Signs
Road Engineering
What Should I Do if?
100
True or False: All traffic signs have a border to help focus attention on the sign.
What is "True"
100
Identify a message that you might expect on standard traffic signs with an orange background color
What is "Construction Warning"
100
Identify a message that you might expect on a standard traffic sign with Brown as the background color
What is Various forms of recreation guidance, such as parks, historical attractions, ski areas
100
These are traffic signs that have unique shapes
What are STOP, YIELD, No Passing Zone, Railroad, School Crossing
100
On a two-lane, two-way highway, where is passing prohibited?
Where visibility is restricted, such as a hill, curve, or 100 feet from an intersection.
200
True or False: All Regulatory signs are enforceable.
What is "True"
Although it is problematic how one enforces the black and white regulatory messages with PASS WITH CARE or TRUCK LANE 500 FEET.
200
Identify a message that you might expect on standard traffic signs with the following Strong Yellow-Green background color
What is School Crossing Signs
200
Identify a message that you might expect on standard traffic signs with the Blue background color
What is Motorist service message for rest areas, food/fuel/lodging, hospitals, airports.
200
True or False: Traffic engineers will post warning signs at every hazard.
False. Drivers should always be alert to any real-time hazards that may exist on a highway.
200
What should I do if I come to a traffic signal and noe of the signal indications are illuminated?
What is "Treat it as a four-way stop"
300
Identify a message that you might expect on a standard traffic sign with a red background color.
What is "Stop", "Yield", or "Wrong Way"
300
True or False: The Cross Road sign is used to indicate the presence of an intersection with a cross street.
What is "True"
300
Identify a message that you might expect on a standard traffic sign with a green background color.
What is street names and freeway guide signs
300
This is what a green arrow means
What is "The motorist may make the indicated left-turn"
300
What should I do if I come to a signal at a rail-highway grade crossing and the indications are not illuminated?
What is "In their standard mode of operation, railroad signals are illuminated only if a train is at or approaching the crossing with the highway. Therefore you should proceed across the crossing".
400
When I come upon a stop sign, this is where I stop
What is "painted stop bar, the crosswalk, or the position where a driver has an adequate view of approaching traffic".
400
This is how a merge sign should be treated
What is "used in advance of the point where traffic enters a freeway."
400
The sketched sign is green with white numerals and is placed along the roadside
This is a guide sign, commonly referred to as a milepost.
400
This is What a Yellow and Red Arrow means.
What is They have the same meaning as a Solid yellow and Solid Red light.
400
What should I do if I come to an intersection with a red signal indication for me and a green indication for intersecting traffic and I wait for four minutes without getting a green signal?
At intersections in New Mexico, if you've actually waited that long, there is probably something wrong with the traffic signal controller or the traffic detectors. Make a right turn on red and select the best alternative route to your destination.
500
On a traffic sign, this is a red circle and slash on a white background.
Regulatory Signs may show PROHIBITION of something by using the symbol on a sign and surrounding it with a red circle and slash.
500
These are two most common warning signs
Turn Sign and Curve sign
500
If you are unfamiliar with a roadway, this kind of sign is what you rely on.
What is "Guide Sign"
500
This is what a blinking yellow sign means.
Treated as a yield sign until it turns red.
500
What should I do if I am driving in the left lane of a rural NM Freeway and I think one of my tires is going flat. Should I slow down and pull onto the left shoulder?
You should slow and move to a safe area.
With few exceptions the left-hand shoulders on not wide enough to be safe. Right-hand shoulders are usually safer.